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OSF: To Kill a Mockingbird & the Iconic White Hero
02.26.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsTom Robinson (Peter Macon), Atticus Finch (Mark Murphey) and Heck Tate (Peter Frechette) in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Photo: David Cooper. Ashland’s a snowy, somewhat icy town this weekend for the opening weekend of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. First up last night was the Bill Rauch-directed Measure for Measure, which I [...]
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education, new plays, producers, theatre festivals
Making Lifelong Arts Supporters in Oregon
I was a fan of children’s theatre starting as a little kid in a music/drama toddler class (seriously). The Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood scared me silly at age 4; I took part in many a play at school and in special drama programs (Camellot Academy in Kansas City) — and as an adult [...]
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producers, profile, q & a, theatre festivals
Q&A: Bobby Bermea, BaseRoots Theatre
Introducing … Bobby Bermea, who serves as the artistic director of BaseRoots Theatre, a newish theatre company in Portland, Oregon. BaseRoots was founded on Juneteenth, 2009, and its mission statement says that it’s “a group of professional theater artists organized to build bridges between communities by presenting classical and contemporary theatre that showcases the unique [...]
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directors, new plays, playwrights, theatre festivals
Porn Shops, Swans and Much More: Portland’s Fertile Ground, Weekend One
In Portland, or so they say, you can put a bird on it, and call it art. The Fertile Ground new works festival isn’t exactly as the creators of Portlandia posit — I saw no clowns or artistic birds last weekend — but the 11-day explosion of playwriting, acting, dancing and more does have a mixed-genre, [...]
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Watch this: 2amt in the 3rd Dimension
Want to see us live and direct from the first annual Chicago Fringe Festival? Streaming via the #newplay channel from Arena Stage, we go live at 10:30 am CT, 11:30 am ET, Saturday, September 4th, 2010. Kris Vire, theatre editor at Time Out Chicago, is the moderator. The panel includes Bilal Dardai of The Neo-Futurists [...]
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playwrights, theatre festivals
The Minnesota Fringe Festival and the Popularity of New Plays
08.19.10 | Permalink | 4 CommentsThe Minnesota Fringe Festival wrapped up this past weekend, so it’s a bit too soon to offer a really comprehensive postmortem. Instead, I’d like to offer some notes on the event. Firstly, the Minnesota Fringe Festival is big — really big, and it’s growing. It’s been about for 16 years, and this year offered 169 [...]
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2amt podcast, social media, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
2amt Podcast: Fringe On the Top
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:31 — 39.8MB) Summertime means festivals, fringe and otherwise. In today’s podcast, we’ll hear from some of the playwrights who attended the JAW Festival at Portland Center Stage, including Rob Handel, managing director of 13P, and Jason Wells. Then we visit the Toronto Fringe Festival with playwright [...]
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producers, social media, theatre festivals
Thoughts on the Hollywood Fringe Festival
Being a part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival (HFF) was amazing. When my co-producer and I signed up as a project, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had never produced before. I just figured that my project management skills from various jobs would come in handy. I had no idea what I was really [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, development, ideas, playwrights, rabble rousing, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
Theater and Disruptive Technology
06.30.10 | Permalink | 30 CommentsDisruptive technology and disruptive innovation are terms used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically by being lower priced or designed for a different set of consumers. – Wikipedia I think the world of new play development is ready [...]
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presenting, producers, theatre festivals
Hollywood Fringe Festival: The View
While we’re putting together some audio treats from my adventure at the Hollywood Fringe, here are some visual tidbits–photos from the first couple of days of the first annual festival.
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theatre festivals
Hollywood Fringe Festival: Getting it started
It’s a familiar sight for any Edinburgh Festival Fringe veteran: an improvised stage on the town’s main street, with a gathering crowd gawking at the performers while smiling minions press flyers into the spectators’ hands. What’s different is that this is Hollywood Boulevard. My first experience with a theatre festival was all-in: I was assistant [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, non-profit theatre, social media, storefront theatre, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
Delete Twitter Theater Profiles
04.18.10 | Permalink | 21 CommentsIf Rocco Landesman claims that artists are entrepreneurs, I think it is important to look at other entrepreneurial models, outside the theater world, to see what they are saying about the work they do, and how their work connects to customers and community. On person I follow pretty closely is Gary Vanyerchuck. His is very [...]
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